Nicole Phelps
Bottega Veneta’s Schorr Thing
Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Maier has made a policy of hiring artists to shoot the label’s ad campaigns. His previous collaborators have included Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Tina Barney. For BV’s new Resort lineup, he turned to Collier Schorr, an artist best known for portraits of adolescents that merge realism and fantasy. “I’m drawn to [...]
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Alexander Wang had Erin Wasson and Iselin Steiro on his runway, but the catwalk veteran that really had his crowd buzzing was Liberty Ross. The model-turned-actress was much in the news earlier this year when her husband Rupert Sanders’ affair with Kristen Stewart was made public. Ross stars in Wang’s latest Confessional video, and she [...]
Two Centuries Of Fashion History, Starring Tilda Swinton
Christian Lacroix, Haider Ackermann, Martine Sitbon, Bruno Frisoni. They all gathered at the Palais de Tokyo last night for a one-of-a-kind, one-woman fashion show: The Impossible Wardrobe, conceived and curated by the Musée Galliera’s Olivier Saillard and starring none other than Tilda Swinton. The performance lasted nearly 40 minutes, or about four times the normal [...]
Fay Spring 2013
Label: Fay, designed by Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi of Aquilano.Rimondi and owned by Diego Della Valle’s Tod’s Group.Need to know: Aquilano and Rimondi took the reins at this previously outerwear-focused brand last year, tasked with adding ready-to-wear to the mix. For Spring, they’re thinking 1960s: shifts, safari jackets, and minis in gelato colors, luxed [...]
Prova, Now A Pant Pro
Design what you know. Prova’s Irini Arakas learned that lesson covering up-and-coming talents as an editor at Vogue, and she’s put it to use in her own six-year-old collection. When the scarf and jewelry maker expanded into ready-to-wear for Fall ’11, she started with dresses because that’s what she wore. Fast-forward to Spring 2013, though, [...]